04 July, 2016

The exits epidemic - the US empire must be furious

After the
vote for Brexit prevailed, a series of European Union countries expressed
their true feelings about the Union. As the ghost of the
Far-Right is taking over the continent after EU's complete failure to
handle the refugee issue efficiently, several countries threaten
the rotten EU structure with an exits epidemic.

The Hungarian Prime Minister's
[Viktor Orban] right hand man has said he does not want to remain
in the European Union (EU) as it fails to protect European values.
Janos Lazar's shock revelation on Thursday afternoon came as a
growing number of EU members have joined a queue to back leaving
the bloc after Britons voted to leave last week. The Minister for
the Prime Minister's office, said: "I couldn't vote
whole-heartedly for Hungary to stay in the EU. "Europe does
not equal the EU. The EU is not able to protect the rights and
values of Europe."

[...]

Hungary, which joined the EU in
2004, has become part of a core group of rebels, including Poland,
the Czech Republic and Slovakia, who threatened today to draw up
their own plans for a less centralised EU. Poland, which also
joined in 2004, is leading the rebellion by nine former communist
countries after accusing the old guard - Belgium, France, Italy,
Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands - of monopolising EU
discussions after holding private talks in Berlin over the
weekend.

[...]

Mr Orban also said the EU's failure
to manage the migrant crisis was to blame for Britain voting to
leave the EU and warned further referendums could follow. He
added: "The important question is what lessons to draw from
what happened, for us Europeans who are still members of the
European Union and want to stay in. "If the EU cannot solve
the migration situation then such challenges as we saw in the case
of the United Kingdom will increase."

There is no
doubt that some former Eastern Bloc countries are deeply displeased,
not only by the way that the EU is dealing the refugee crisis, but
also by the fact that they seem to be left out from key decisions by
the EU's founding members and hard core countries. It seems that the
pro-Brexit vote inspired them to follow the same path.

So, while
the US empire may not be entirely displeased by a potential Brexit,
as the traditional politics will restore influence on a traditional
ally, it must be really furious seeing that former Eastern Bloc
countries seriously thinking of leaving the EU.

The economic
oligarchy that represents the neoliberal internationalism in both
sides of the Atlantic will not tolerate further losses. Yet, that
doesn't mean that there is no economic war between the big capital
supergiants. Inside this increasingly chaotic situation, things are
far more complex than they appear.

The US
banking/corporate capital promotes its most faithful puppet, Hillary
Clinton, as the most suitable to break the threat of the rising
Sino-Russian alliance, which could form a rival alternative model
through BRICS and other formations against the Western neoliberal
financial monopoly. For that purpose it would be absolutely necessary
to keep the former Eastern Bloc countries tied to the Western
formations, by all means. Theoretically, Germany should act towards
this direction, but the paranoia of the German technocrats that
demand further sado-monetarism by the member states, even after
Brexit, appears to be unexplained.

As already mentioned, Nationalists and Far-Right eurosceptics are
rising everywhere, seeing already a German-dominated Europe. So why
the German political puppets play with fire? Why do they put their
precious neoliberal internationalism at risk?

An
alternative possible explanation would be that the German capital is
trying to shape its own pole in the European continent, creating an
autonomous bloc. The German technocrats don't know how to do it
except go by the book of the mainstream neoliberal economics of
destruction, made in IMF. They are characterized by zero flexibility
and all they care about is to start another Treuhand
operation in European level for the benefit of the German oligarchy.
Despite that they destroyed the Greek economy, they didn't hesitate
to force the second eurozone economy, France, proceed in anti-labor
measures, using the European institutions. They will not hesitate to
impose the sado-monetarism recipe even inside Germany.

At the same
time, there is an underground economic war through which the few
survivors will declare absolute dominance in the neo-Feudal era of
big banks and corporations. We've seen some examples that came on
surface: “German drug and chemicals group Bayer has offered to
buy the American GM seed pioneer Monsanto for $62bn (£43bn) in a
deal that would create the world’s biggest agricultural supplier.”
(theguardian.com)
Also, the US-controlled IMF declared war on Deutsche Bank stating
that the bank "poses the greatest systemic risk to the global
financial system".

The problem
is that until the whole thing clear up, the exits epidemic may break
the EU into pieces with the nightmare of Far-Right hanging above the
continent. Recall that the Czech president proposed referendum not only on EU, but also on NATO
membership. Therefore, the US empire must be really furious about the
stubborn German inflexibility right now. How things could evolve
further from this chaos, it would be better not to think about it ...